Galway Arts Centre is delighted to present After resurrection, soon: Artist talk by Taïm Haimet as part of the Culture Night 2024 Programme. After resurrection, soon serves, as a pretext for evening arabic coffee, discussion and collective reading of a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. An invitation to exchange on Gaza.
Duration: 1 hr
Age: All
Limited spaces: The booking for this event is essential!
About the artist
Taïm Haimet is a multidisciplinary artist based in Galway. Born in France of Syrian parents, her work explores the inheritance of a Middle Eastern identity deeply intertwined with a history of colonialism, continuous wars and loss. The question of where we place the notion ‘Sacred’ on what is lost, or on what is left _individually or collectively_ is at the heart of her practice. She completed an Honours degree in Contemporary Art in 2023 and is currently pursuing an MA in Creative Practice at the ATU Galway. She has won the 126 Gallery artist residency award 2023 and the 2023 RDS Visual Arts Awards.
Children of Darkness
‘This is a battle between the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Between
Humanity and the Law of the Jungle’
Benyamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister if Israel, October 17, 2023
‘Gaza has become a graveyard for children’
Antonio Guterres, UN secretary General, November 6, 2023.
As the erasure of Gaza is approaching its year-long continuation, this installation examines the position of the virtual witness, accessing the live streamed images of unimaginable human destruction in real time, uninterrupted, via social media. This radical change in perception, enabled by the technological moment in history we have reached, birthed an unprecedented dystopian experience. The work interrogates the polar opposition between the political language and the documented reality / empathy and an emotional saturation leading to numbness / the evanescent, fleeting nature of virtual images and the concrete materiality of the events on the ground.
The title of the installation is borrowed from the now famous tweet by the Prime minister of Israel at the beginning of the onslaught, and explores it literally, examining the multiple meanings and layers of Darkness, and the dehumanisation of children.
According to the UN, more children have died in Gaza in the first 6 months of war, than in all global conflicts around the world in the past four years combined. They represent the main casualties of the ongoing bombings.
